Legends of the Ancients: Carthage

Legends of the Ancients: Carthage is the second in our line of small legends books. These books aim to complement the GM running any Legends game (currently major lines are Legends of Excalibur, Legends of Samurai and Legends of the Dark Ages) by providing a new core class and some high level NPCs drawn from history.

Each mini Legends book will also provide an overview of a region's history. This history could serve as the background for a character from an exotic locale or provide the game master with a head start in conducting a more thorough search for basing a campaign or long term adventure in the location in question.

Legends of the Ancients: Carthage by RPGobjects is part of their Legends of the Ancients line designed with this aim in mind: ?Each book in this series will present a brief snapshot of an ancient civilization, presenting enough history and mechanics for [...]

I'm 60/40 for this product, but as I have no distinct reasons why I wasn't totally impressed, I'll give you the plus side... This supplement provided a nice transition from historical fact to d20 stats but seemed a bit lacking in overall content. The [...]

This covers another piece of mythic Earth that I don't have to research myself, and it is very good. LIKED: All of it, but could have been fleshed out a little more. DISLIKED: More background would have been nice. Q[...]

All in all, not a good value. The class and write ups of the two NPCs take space away from an examination of Carthage itself. One error I noticed was Hannibal doesn't have a Knowledge (tactics) score. QUALITY: Acceptable VALUE: [...]

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